Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-12-01
THE WORLD AT LARGE.


BUT eighty persons are known to have
been saved from the wreck of the steamer
Scholten in the British Channel One of the
survivors states that there were eight hun
dred life-belts on board, but that they were
useless in q majority of cases because the
people were ingulfed with the ship The
general impression is thst the responsibility
for the disaster rests with the officers of the
steamer Rosa Mary.
The Executive Committee of the National
Grange, in session at lansing, Mich, reported
81, $50 expended during tho past year for lee
turers, and recommended the establishment
of q permanent headquarters at Washington,
where records, etc, could be kept. II also
favored changes in the patent laws.
EX-SENATOR CHARLES F. JONES. Of Florida,
is reported in financial distress at Detroit
He has been turned ont of hotels and restau-
rants, but he has been taken in charge by a
friend who will give him shelter for the
present 1t is said that he is mental wreck.
A GENTLEMAN who subscrIbes himself "A
Godson of the Crown Prince" has long and
interesting letter in the New York Tribune of
Monday on the situation in Germany He
makes some statements in relation to the
Crown Prince and his son, the heir apparent
wnfcn rather staruing:
The writer says that the empire Of Germany
Is on the eve OF an immense catastrophe, and
declares that he knows whereof he speaks, as
he has been since boyhood a close friend OF the
Crown Prince. After speaking Of the Crown
Prince. he says the public Is unaware
Prince William Of Prussia His condition
has been thrown completely into the back
ground for the moment by the sudden
h
er's fatal malady and his grandfather's ever
increasing weakness and disability. The
OF the succession OF Prince William will never
be realized. The young man Is suffering in n
severe degree from the same peculiar disease
which carried of the late King of Prussia,
after rendering him completely insane during
the last few years Of his reign. In the event
OF his insanity or death and OF the de-
misc of the old Kaiser ana CT the Crown
Prince the succession devolves upon Prince
Williams little 4-year-old son. A bitter struggle
would then ensue for the regency in which the
Berlin Junker and court party is determined
that the Crown Princess Victoria shall have no
share. There is not q member OF the imperial
family who would be At to undertake the re-
gency IL tho Crown Princess were LETT out OF
consideration The question of the regency is
further complicated by the inevitable disap-
pearance from the political arena before many
years have elapsed of Prince Bismarck, whose
failing health will scarcely admit OF his long
surviving his present master. He leaves no
one to take his place.
PREVIOUS 70 the adJoufnment OF the North
Alabama Conference of the Southern Meth
odist Church at Tuscaloosa, last week, res
olution was adopted requesting DIR. d. C.
Kelley, of Nashville, ono of the most emil
nent Methodist dvines in America, and
missionary treasurer of the general con-
ferenca, to resign his official position on ac-
count of his utterances in reference to the
Emma Abbott episode at Nashville The
resolution has created great sensation
throughout the entire Southern Methodist
Church. DR.. Kelley defended Miss Abbotts
rising in church TO defend herself against
harsh terms used on theater-going.